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Anna Andersen

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Delta Airlines will begin serving Keflavík via New York starting June 3, 2011. The route will be offered five days per week with connections to other cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas and Fort Lauderdale.

Currently Icelandair and Iceland Express are the only airlines flying out of Keflavík. For many years Icelandair was the only option of flying out of Iceland. In 2002, however, Iceland Express challenged their monopoly with routes to London and eventually to other cities as well.

Here’s Delta’s planned schedule: